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I have been editing photos since the days when scanners came out and didn't understand lots of it . What was the point of putting all those objects over those two women? No one would actually make a photo like that..@@HTGGeorge
Excellent! Could have used this yesterday when I was working on a holiday card. I can now go back and make it even better. Great overview of the "selection" tool.
This old dog did pick up more than a couple of new or refresher tips!!! Thanks as always! Rich................................PS, was messing with a selection with an expanded lasso selection tool and once I refined the selection I had that white glow around it. You had shown a use of the burn tool to fix that. For kicks and giggles I messed around with the "Auto haze removal" and it took away all the white!!!!! Food for thought, take a look at that and see how you like it?? Just had to take a shot at another old dog to see if he knew this trick!!! (Oppps!!) Have fun!
Excellent from start to finish. Great tips and intro to Elements - I don't use Elements as my main editor but I use it a lot for stuff I can do better than with my go to editor....so, learned a lot here - thanks very much
Liked and subscribed. Enjoy all your videos. I'm a senior (Vietnam veteran type), and have a mental block with layers. I'll attribute that to age. 🤪 Thanks again.
Thanks Louie! Welcome aboard! The way I like to think of layers is like a deck of cards. You put different things on different cards with the top of the deck being the top of the layer stack. The bottom card is solid, the rest of the cards can be seen through to some degree, either a solid object on a transparent card, or a card that is partially transparent. That really is all there is to it. I use layers to help separate things into different steps or stages, just helps with organization. Most things can be done on one layer, but it isn't as flexible that way.
Thanks Jackie! I have the Creative Suite but I tend to mostly use Photoshop Elements for lots of reasons, with the biggest one being that it is a lot faster than Photoshop. I will always admit that Adobe Photoshop is the best image editing program on the planet, but for what I do on a daily basis Photoshop Elements is a lot better.
@@HTGGeorge with me now George ,i started drawing {learning} and sold all of my camera gear down to just one camera.so am not using PS much, but own PSE and AFFINITy, so that where my future lies.
Affinity and PSE make a great team. Have fun with the drawing! That is actually where my background is, went to school to become a commercial illustrator and did professionally that for a few years before falling in love with computers.
Photoshop Elements does have Adobe Camera Raw, which is a little RAW editor that can be accessed through Elements. But Elements itself does not work with RAW files.
hi, i have several separate images i want to use the rectangle marquee to cut out and paste to a new single file question: whats the best way to get the marquee tool to be the same size on each image, can i do a last marquee size instant click?
Select the rectagular marguee took then in the Options panel at the bottom click the drop down that says Normal and change that to Fixed Size, theh type in the size you want. There is no option for single click last size used. I would approach this differently. First on your project file I would put in guide lines to show where I wanted the images placed. Then I would bring in the images into that fileand then resize them to fit in the correct place, then I would use the rectangular marquee along with the guidelines to select the areas you want shown and use that selection to create a layer mask for each area. I just did this for a recent thumbnail. I will do a fast video later today showing how to do this. If you don't want the images in a perfect grid you can reposition them after making the layer mask.
Hi, I was sitting here and thinking about other ways to do this and there is a real easy one. Set the marquee on your first image to the size you want. Now make a new layer and fill that selection with black. This gives you a new layer with a black rectangle the size you want for the marquee. Now since that is still selected go to Edit/Copy, or use the ctrl+c keyboard shortcut to copy that rectangle to the clipboard. Now go up to File/New and the new file dialog box will already be sized correctly to match that black rectangle. Make that new file and paste the rectagle into that file and then save. You now have a black rectangle file at the exact size you want for your selection. Now paste that file/image into your other pictures, set that layer to something like 30% and move it around your image to get just the right position. Then ctrl+click on the thumbnail for that rectangle layer to make it a selection, hide that layer and copy that area from your picture.
I will do fast videos for both of these techniques and put them on my other channel HTG Photo, here is the link for that channel www.youtube.com/@HTGphoto
I'm just about to purchase this on sale. Is there a way to quickly change the formats of a large number of photos once done editing, in order to archive them on an external hard drive? What format is best for long term archiving?
The best archive format is whatever final format you want the image in. If you need to be able to go back and do more editing then the Photoshop Elements psd format is good. If you are finished editing and won't do any more editing then something like jpg or png should work fine. If you are editing the images then just save them as you go to your final format and you won't have to do any batch stuff. But there is a batch tool in File/Process Multiple Files
@HTG George Thanks. I currently have everything in JPG. I need the batch tool. I have years of photos to go through, and don't plan on editing them all. But I will likely want to save everything on my external hard drives.
You label this as things beginners need to know, however, you speak way to fast and you jump your mouse around so fast it is almost impossible to follow what you are doing. Please slow down.
This is a fast overview just to give you a list of what to learn, I have individual videos on every one of these things where I take more time and explain more fully. Check out my Photoshop Elements Beginners playlist.
I gotta tell you George, This is NOT a beginners tutorial!! I really dont doubt your expertise, you just dont have the ability to communicate this to BEGINNERS
This was far too fast you should explain a lot more as you do it. Absolutely useless for a beginner you talk about things a beginner has never heard of. You should explain the purpose of doing things not just how to do it.
@@alrafter1593 Just as the title says, this is a list of things beginners should know. It isn't a how to on each one, that would take me a couple of hours of video time. Better to watch the individual videos on each topic.
➡ Check out my New Tool that makes learning Photoshop Elements Super Easy! Here is my video about it on my HTG Photo channel ua-cam.com/video/-cJ2AviZNI8/v-deo.html
Thanks George, for always remembering those who are just beginning, confused
You're welcome! I always try to make my videos accessible to someone who is new to the program.
I have been editing photos since the days when scanners came out and didn't understand lots of it . What was the point of putting all those objects over those two women? No one would actually make a photo like that..@@HTGGeorge
Brilliant overview. I’ve been using Photoshop Elements for more than a decade, and still found this “beginners” tutorial very helpful. Thanks.
You're very welcome!
Can never learn enough
Adjustment layer ! Good to know by clicking clipping mask
Happy to help! Don't forget that all of my new Photoshop Elements videos will now be found over on the new HTG Photo channel www.youtube.com/@HTGPhoto
I’m so thrilled to find the floating layers! I’ve been struggling with Windows tab and tile was the only option that worked. Thank you, George!
Glad I could help!
Excellent! Could have used this yesterday when I was working on a holiday card. I can now go back and make it even better. Great overview of the "selection" tool.
Thanks!
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This old dog did pick up more than a couple of new or refresher tips!!!
Thanks as always!
Rich................................PS, was messing with a selection with an expanded lasso selection tool and once I refined the selection I had that white glow around it. You had shown a use of the burn tool to fix that. For kicks and giggles I messed around with the "Auto haze removal" and it took away all the white!!!!! Food for thought, take a look at that and see how you like it?? Just had to take a shot at another old dog to see if he knew this trick!!! (Oppps!!) Have fun!
Hi Rich, love that PS. That is a new one on me. You are right, even old dogs can learn new tricks. Great idea.
Thank you, George. This is really worth going thru. There is soo much to learn in Elements.
You are very welcome Peggy!
Excellent from start to finish. Great tips and intro to Elements - I don't use Elements as my main editor but I use it a lot for stuff I can do better than with my go to editor....so, learned a lot here - thanks very much
You're very welcome! I use Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo, and Photoshop Elements with most of my work being in Photoshop Elements
learn a whole lot from the outset of your presentation. thanks so much, George
My pleasure!
George, tenhle tutoriál je fantastický - skvělá práce.
Thanks!
Tip #9.5 Name your layers, particularly if you have several. Great beginner video. Cheers!
Great tip! I do that myself when I begin to get more than about 10 layes in a project.
@@HTGGeorge Cheers.
# 5 click on clipping mask on adjustment layers - did not know 😮
As always thanks George
You're welcome Donna! There are a few little tricks I use all the time, that is one of them.
Another superb tutorial!
Thanks again!
Liked and subscribed. Enjoy all your videos. I'm a senior (Vietnam veteran type), and have a mental block with layers. I'll attribute that to age. 🤪 Thanks again.
Thanks Louie! Welcome aboard! The way I like to think of layers is like a deck of cards. You put different things on different cards with the top of the deck being the top of the layer stack. The bottom card is solid, the rest of the cards can be seen through to some degree, either a solid object on a transparent card, or a card that is partially transparent. That really is all there is to it. I use layers to help separate things into different steps or stages, just helps with organization. Most things can be done on one layer, but it isn't as flexible that way.
@@HTGGeorge Great explanation! Thank you for your time. Truly appreciate it.
Excellent from start to finish George, i have P.E.2022 but never use it ,but will when i get rid of PHOTOSHOP in the future.
Thanks Jackie! I have the Creative Suite but I tend to mostly use Photoshop Elements for lots of reasons, with the biggest one being that it is a lot faster than Photoshop. I will always admit that Adobe Photoshop is the best image editing program on the planet, but for what I do on a daily basis Photoshop Elements is a lot better.
@@HTGGeorge with me now George ,i started drawing {learning} and sold all of my camera gear down to just one camera.so am not using PS much, but own PSE and AFFINITy, so that where my future lies.
Affinity and PSE make a great team. Have fun with the drawing! That is actually where my background is, went to school to become a commercial illustrator and did professionally that for a few years before falling in love with computers.
Can I work with RAW files in this Elements program ? Nice educating video BTW. Thank you.
Photoshop Elements does have Adobe Camera Raw, which is a little RAW editor that can be accessed through Elements. But Elements itself does not work with RAW files.
hi, i have several separate images i want to use the rectangle marquee to cut out and paste to a new single file
question: whats the best way to get the marquee tool to be the same size on each image, can i do a last marquee size instant click?
Select the rectagular marguee took then in the Options panel at the bottom click the drop down that says Normal and change that to Fixed Size, theh type in the size you want. There is no option for single click last size used. I would approach this differently. First on your project file I would put in guide lines to show where I wanted the images placed. Then I would bring in the images into that fileand then resize them to fit in the correct place, then I would use the rectangular marquee along with the guidelines to select the areas you want shown and use that selection to create a layer mask for each area. I just did this for a recent thumbnail. I will do a fast video later today showing how to do this. If you don't want the images in a perfect grid you can reposition them after making the layer mask.
Hi, I was sitting here and thinking about other ways to do this and there is a real easy one. Set the marquee on your first image to the size you want. Now make a new layer and fill that selection with black. This gives you a new layer with a black rectangle the size you want for the marquee. Now since that is still selected go to Edit/Copy, or use the ctrl+c keyboard shortcut to copy that rectangle to the clipboard. Now go up to File/New and the new file dialog box will already be sized correctly to match that black rectangle. Make that new file and paste the rectagle into that file and then save. You now have a black rectangle file at the exact size you want for your selection. Now paste that file/image into your other pictures, set that layer to something like 30% and move it around your image to get just the right position. Then ctrl+click on the thumbnail for that rectangle layer to make it a selection, hide that layer and copy that area from your picture.
I will do fast videos for both of these techniques and put them on my other channel HTG Photo, here is the link for that channel www.youtube.com/@HTGphoto
I'm just about to purchase this on sale. Is there a way to quickly change the formats of a large number of photos once done editing, in order to archive them on an external hard drive? What format is best for long term archiving?
The best archive format is whatever final format you want the image in. If you need to be able to go back and do more editing then the Photoshop Elements psd format is good. If you are finished editing and won't do any more editing then something like jpg or png should work fine. If you are editing the images then just save them as you go to your final format and you won't have to do any batch stuff. But there is a batch tool in File/Process Multiple Files
@HTG George Thanks. I currently have everything in JPG. I need the batch tool. I have years of photos to go through, and don't plan on editing them all. But I will likely want to save everything on my external hard drives.
I found a really old video that shows the batch tool. I don't think it has changed much over the years ua-cam.com/video/hRk197dXLKI/v-deo.html
You label this as things beginners need to know, however, you speak way to fast and you jump your mouse around so fast it is almost impossible to follow what you are doing. Please slow down.
This is a fast overview just to give you a list of what to learn, I have individual videos on every one of these things where I take more time and explain more fully. Check out my Photoshop Elements Beginners playlist.
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I gotta tell you George, This is NOT a beginners tutorial!! I really dont doubt your expertise, you just dont have the ability to communicate this to BEGINNERS
Which is why I have a complete training course for absolute beginners, yoiu can find the link in the description.
This was far too fast you should explain a lot more as you do it. Absolutely useless for a beginner you talk about things a beginner has never heard of. You should explain the purpose of doing things not just how to do it.
This is an overview video. I have other in-depth videos showing how to use all these tools.
The tile is wrong then. It's not suitable for beginners as the title states.@@HTGGeorge
@@alrafter1593 Just as the title says, this is a list of things beginners should know. It isn't a how to on each one, that would take me a couple of hours of video time. Better to watch the individual videos on each topic.